Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell was live on Reddit today participating in an official AMA (Ask Me Anything) that was hosted to focus on a wide variety of topics. The AMA was announced earlier this week and confirmed yesterday, but it looks like it got started a bit earlier than originally planned. “There are...
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‘Freedom Locomotion’ Wants to Be Your Fully-Featured Movement System for VR Games
When playing a VR game, there are currently three fundamental styles of play. Users can play games in a seated position, which is ideal for cockpit-based piloting or driving games, as well as many gamepad games. Then there’s the standing position, which has you standing in one place as you interact with the virtual world. Movement...
Vive Strap Accessory with Flip-up Visor and PSVR-style Comfort Passes Crowdfunding Goal
Florida based SynergyWiz is designing a third-party head-mount for the HTC Vive which uses a PSVR-stlye ‘halo’ mounting design for added comfort, and offers the much desired visor flip functionality. Among the three major headsets out there, not one offers what seems like an obvious convenience: the ability to flip up the display assembly for quick...
Survios To Release VR Arcade Version of ‘Raw Data’ Following Game’s Sales Success
Survios is one of early virtual reality’s most impressive success stories. The young studio has created one of the best-selling VR experiences available today, in Raw Data. This experience is available only through Steam for the HTC Vive (with unofficial Oculus Rift with Touch support) and it has eclipsed the elusive $1 million benchmark in...
No More ‘RIGS: Mechanized Combat League’ DLC, Sony Confirms
Last week held the surprising news that Sony closed down RIGS: Mechanized Combat League developer, Guerrilla Cambridge. The move left us with a few questions, however. Specifically, we didn’t know what the studio’s closure meant for the future support of the game. Guerrilla Cambridge released a Winter Update for the PlayStation VR arena shooter back in...
Microsoft Acquires 3D Data Optimization Specialists Simplygon
There are so many elements that make our different devices and programs work as advertised, and tech giants like Microsoft are on the lookout for the best and most efficient way to make them do what they do. Microsoft is one of the largest tech companies in the world so it’s no surprise when they...
Cult Classic ‘Deadly Premonition’ Dev Is Making The Strangest VR Content You’ll See Today
As far as cult videogames go, they don’t get any weirder than Deadly Premonition, a horror game both loved and hated in gaming circles and directed by Hidetaka Suehiro, better known as Swery65. At first sight, Premonition seemed to be one of the worst games every burned onto a disc when it released on Xbox...
‘Esper’, ‘Gang Beasts’ Co-Dev Coatsink Going All-In On VR, Working On Three New Games
As one of the first developers to release a game for Gear VR and helping to bring multiplayer classic Gang Beasts [Review: 7/10] to Rift, Coatsink is one of the UK’s biggest VR devs, and 2017 sounds like it will be a significant year for the company. CEO Tom Beardsmore confirmed to UploadVR that the...
OSSIC CEO on Why the Future of Music is Immersive & Interactive
OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I’ve heard yet. OSSIC CEO Jason Riggs told me that their headphones do a dynamic calibration of your ears in order to render out near-field audio that is customized to your anatomy, and they...
Mark Zuckerberg In ZeniMax Case: ‘Oculus Products Are Based On Oculus Technology’
Our writer has gotten the first quote from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s turn answering questions in the case brought by ZeniMax against Oculus and its management. ZeniMax, the former employer of Oculus Chief Technology Officer John Carmack, accuses the Facebook-owned company of stealing trade secrets and destroying evidence while also claiming ZeniMax as “the visionary developers of...